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Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature

Liu, Xing (Michelle) (xingliu@email.arizona.edu) and Eva Sierminska
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Liu, Xing (Michelle): University of Arizona

No 8526, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive empirical literature of the effect of physical attractiveness on labor market outcomes. Particular attention is given to the channels through which attractiveness may affect individual labor market outcomes and the way attractiveness affects gender wage differentials. Further research is needed on the effect of attractiveness within occupations in order to provide more evidence on its productivity-enhancing channel of transmission and the effect this has on the gender wage gap.

Keywords: stereotypes; productivity; physical attractiveness; occupational sorting; human capital model; gender differentials; discrimination; cross-country; beauty premium; wages; wage discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J2 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2014-10
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Published - published in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, Vol. 6

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